Re: UKNM: Re: excuse me, someone has stolen our domain ...

[Darren Wallace]

The story that I heard was that Digital, in their wisdom, used

altavista.digital.com because they wanted the brand to be 'Digital', rather

than 'altavista'. Therefore, they had little interest in registering the

altavista.com domain at the time.


Aside from the fact that it's more of a hassle to actually type

'altavista.digital.com' than 'altavista.com', as wel as being harder to

remember, you'd have thought that Digital would have bought the domain anyway,

which I understood was freely available at the time.


I've no idea what the recent domain sale was worth, although I have heard

unsubstantiated claims of a couple of million dollars bandied around.


Any ideas, Ivan?


D.


>Anyone know what the guys who had registered

><http://www.altavista.com/> got from Digital when they

>bought the domain name off them? You'd have though a company like DEC would

>have had the foresight not to use a brand name for an Internet product that

>had

>already been registered by someone else.

>

>

>Toodle Pip

>

>Sam

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>Chinwag - http://www.chinwag.com

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